General Electric Company

Nuthi Srinivas

Nicholas Joseph Kray

David Raju Yamarthi

Nitesh Jain

Sandeep Kumar

Abhijeet Jayshingrao Yadav

Gary Willard Bryant, Jr

Paul Mathew

Vamshi Krishna Reddy Kommareddy

Vishnu Vardhan Venkata Tatiparthi

Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong

Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu

Guru Venkata Dattu Jonnalagadda

An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes an exterior skin layer having a pressure side surface, a suction side surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. The exterior skin layer defines an interior volume. The airfoil further includes a primary structure within the interior volume between the pressure and suction side surfaces. The primary structure includes one or more primary meta-structures. The airfoil further includes a secondary structure within the interior volume adjacent to the primary structure between the pressure and suction side surfaces. The secondary structure includes at least one isogrid structure. Further, one or more of the plurality of primary meta-structures of the primary structure is connected to at least a portion of the at least one isogrid structure of the secondary structure.

Airfoil for a gas turbine engine having an inner core structure formed of meta-structures and isogrids

Examples disclosed herein include a fan blade of a gas turbine engine. The disclosed fan blade includes a main body having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The fan blade includes a leading edge guard covering the leading edge and a leading section of the main body adjacent to the leading edge. The leading edge guard includes a plurality of leading edge guard segments consecutively arranged in a spanwise direction along the leading edge of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments are oriented at an angle relative to a root of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments includes a nose portion coupled to the leading edge and a wing portion coupled to opposing sides of the leading section of the main body.

Segmented leading edge guards

An airfoil assembly and a method of manufacturing the same are provided, the airfoil assembly defining a span axis, a root end, and a tip end. The airfoil assembly includes a reinforcement structure comprising a first helical support structure wrapped around the span axis between the root end and the tip end and a second helical support structure wrapped around the span axis between the root end and the tip end; a polymeric matrix material positioned at least partially around the reinforcement structure; and an outer skin positioned around the reinforcement structure and the polymeric matrix material.

Airfoil assembly with an internal reinforcement structure

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Bengaluru, India

Nuthi Srinivas